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Elemental composition of illicia and otoliths and their potential application to age validation in white anglerfish (Lophius piscatorius linnaeus, 1758)
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021-08-20)
The incorporation of trace elements into the calcified structures of fish can vary seasonally. Interpretation of these seasonal signals can provide information about fish age. This approach offers great promise for objectively ...
Evidence of a range expansion in sunfish from 47 years of coastal sightings
(Springer Nature, 2022-01-13)
Almost nothing is known about the historical abundance of the ocean sunfish. Yet as an ecologically and functionally important taxa, understanding changes in abundance may be a useful indicator of how our seas are responding ...
Modelling abundance hotspots for data-poor Irish sea rays
(Elsevier, 2015)
Skates and rays represent one of the most vulnerable components of fish communities in temperate demersal fisheries such as the Irish Sea. They also tend to be data poor in comparison to commercially exploited teleost fish. ...
Long-term trends in herring growth primarily linked to temperature by gradient boosting regression trees
(Elsevier B.V., 2020-09-01)
Environmental change and fishing activity can produce directional trends in exploited fish populations with consequences for stock productivity. For herring in the Celtic Sea, size at age has been in steady decline since ...
Peterman's productivity method for estimating dynamic reference points in changing ecosystems
(Oxford University Press, 2022-03-15)
Target and limit reference points are fundamental management components used to define sustainable harvest strategies. Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) and the precautionary principle underpin many reference points. Non-proxy ...
An open-source database model and collections management system for fish scale and otolith archives
(Elsevier B.V., 2020)
Scales and otoliths (ear stones) from fish are routinely sampled for age estimation and fisheries management purposes. Growth records from scales and otoliths can be used to generate long-term time series data, and in ...
Combining genetic markers with stable isotopes in otoliths reveals complexity in the stock structure of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus)
(Springer Nature, 2020-09-07)
Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) from the two main spawning populations in the Mediterranean and Gulf of Mexico occur together in the western, central and eastern Atlantic. Stock composition of catches from mixing ...
A flexible decision support tool for MSY-based MPA design
(2016)
ICES WGEF recommends that demersal elasmobranchs be managed using spatial proxies 11 for Maximum Sustainable Yield. Here we combine escapement biomass – the percentage of the stock which must be retained each year to ...